Diagnostic Strategies in Patients Suspected of Irritable Bowel Syndrome

Zealand University Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Irritable Bowel Syndrome

Treatments: Other: Exclusion diagnosis; Other: Clinical diagnosis

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00659763

SJ-40

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine whether a clinical diagnosis of irritable bowel syndrome based on patient reported symptoms and a few blood tests is safe, and to determine whether a clinical diagnosis is as good for the patient and as economical for the society as a diagnosis based on exclusion of a number of organic diseases by performing a number of blood tests, fecal analyzes and a scopic examination of bowel.

The purpose of the second part of the study is to determine which intestinal parasites the patients have in their bowel and whether these parasites are the cause of the disease.

Enrollment: 149 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 50 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• age 18-50 years
• consultant in general practice for gastrointestinal symptoms, where the GP suspects irritable bowel syndrome
• full fill the ROME III criteria
• signed informed consent

Exclusion criteria

• alarm signals
• pregnancy
• comorbid diseases, that interfere with primary endpoint
• medicine and alcohol abuse
• patient do not speak or understand danish
• investigations for irritable bowel syndrome with in the last 3 years

from november 2008: patients aged above 40 with a duration shorter than one year

Trial design

149 participants in 2 patient groups

A

Description:

Patients suspected of irritable bowel syndrome referred from GP´s, who fulfill the ROM III criteria for IBS

Treatment:

Other: Exclusion diagnosis

B

Description:

Patients suspected of irritable bowel syndrome referred from GP´s, who fulfill he ROME III criteria for IBS

Treatment:

Other: Clinical diagnosis